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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. Juan Pablo Segura founded Babyscripts in 2014 with the vision that internet enabled medical devices would transform the delivery of pregnancy care.

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

Up and Running

Tim advises asking potential investors to sit in on a “pre pitch” before the formal pitch session, a strategy that worked well for Dune Sciences, which won the 2014 Willamette Angel Conference investment. They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

With a vibrant and rapidly-growing tech ecosystem, there are a number of reasons why Denver should be on your radar for 2014: A strong, constantly evolving tech environment. As for Signpost , we anticipate growing our Denver office from 30 to about 100 in 2014. Denver Mayor Michael B. percent, handily outpacing Silicon Valley’s 0.45

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market.